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Bookish: OTHER PLACES (6#) -

Which books are most often abandoned in motels? One innkeeper discloses that "overall, the most discarded genres were autobiographies, chick lit and thriller books."

"Do you think I should put my piece on the top 10 French existentialist works abandoned at branches of the Little Chef on ice, then?"

Increasingly wacky discussion ensues.

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# Aida Edemarium writes about
what's new with the notorious slush pile.

# An interview with debut author
Andrew Davidson about his big-bucks publishing
deal for The Gargoyle and the process in which
it was written conducted by Alison Flood. [guard]

# John Grooms reviews Havana Nocturne about
the pre-Castro period when mobsters operated there.

# Informal survey of contemporary Indian (Desi) culture:
The Elephant, The Tiger, and The Cell Phone
by Shashi Tharoor is reviewed by Joesph Wilson.

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